Fertility rates are an important indicator for prediction of population development as they describe the average number of children a woman births during her lifetime.

Fertility rates vary worldwide substantially, but there is an overall trend for decreasing number of children being born per woman. Numerous factors may play a role, i.e. the availability of contraceptives, postponement of family planning due to educational or career goals or the active decision against children.

This dashboard is designed to give an overview of current global fertility rates and also their evolution in the last four decades.

Also, the association with economic wealth as surrogate for some of the above mentioned factors is graphically shown.

For those having further interest in investigating the evolution of global fertility rates and also future estimates, the data can be downloaded directly from this dashboard.

Have fun exploring these data.